{"product_id":"girl","title":"Girl","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eGirl\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eCamille Laurens\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781635421019\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eOther Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2022\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eBilingual\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eLittle Dancer Aged Fourteen\u003c\/i\u003e, a deeply personal and insightful account of being a girl, woman, and mother in a world that sees the feminine as less than.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBorn in 1959 to a middle-class family, Laurence Barraqué grows up with her sister in the northern city of Rouen. Her father is a doctor, her mother a housewife. She understands from an early age, by way of language and her parents' example, that a girl's place in life is inferior to a boy's: Asked for the 1964 census whether he has any children, her father promptly responds, \"No. I have two daughters.\" When Laurence eventually becomes a mother herself in the nineties, she grapples with the question of what it means to be a girl, to have a girl, and what lessons she should try to pass down or undo. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMasterful in her analysis of the subtle and obvious ways women are undermined by a sexist society, Camille Laurens lays out her experiences of the past forty years in this poignant, powerful book. \u003ci\u003eGirl \u003c\/i\u003eis at once intimate and sweeping in its depiction of the great challenges we face, such as equalizing the education system and transmitting feminist values to the younger generations.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Other Press","offers":[{"title":"Girl | Camille Laurens | Book | 9781635421019 | New | Fiction 1405664","offer_id":50561103921410,"sku":"1405664","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/31EDvbcbaEL.jpg?v=1790705374","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/girl","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}